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Because architecture provides a 'concrete' focus for many debates pertinent to collective identities, then the rebuilding of the Ground Zero site by architect Daniel Libeskind is hugely significant from the perspective of sociology. So-called 'starchitects' such as Libeskind are increasingly conscious of the complex identity discourses within which their work is situated, with competing identity claims evidenced not only in the actual form of buildings, but also in the abstract narratives architects use to situate their work in a way that avoids (symbolically) privileging one identity over another.The capacity of architects to position their buildings in this way provides the focus of this article, which argues that architects' discourses frequently reveal many tensions between culture, politics, power, and identity.The symbolic nationalization of the architecture at the Ground Zero site has, in part, been achieved by the narrative, highly symbolic links between the buildings there and an 'American' collective identity.

The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939-1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights. The Red Power movement arose in reaction to centuries of oppressive federal oversight of American Indian peoples. It comprised an assortment of grassroots organizations that fought for treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, self-determination, cultural preservation, and cultural relevancy in education. A cofounder of the National Indian Youth Council, Warrior was among the movement's most prominent spokespeople. Throughout the 1960s, he blazed a trail of cultural and political reawakening in Indian Country, using a combination of ultranationalistic rhetoric and direct-action protest. McKenzie-Jones uses interviews with some of Warrior's closest associates to delineate the complexity of community, tradition, culture, and tribal identity that shaped Warrior's activism. For too many years, McKenzie-Jones maintains, Warrior's death at age twenty-nine overshadowed his intellect and achievements. Red Power has been categorized as an American Indian interpretation of Black Power that emerged after his death. This groundbreaking book brings to light, however, previously unchronicled connections between Red Power and Black Power that show the movements emerging side by side as militant, urgent calls for social change. Warrior borrowed only the slogan as a metaphor for cultural and community integrity. Descended from hereditary chiefs, Warrior was immersed in Ponca history and language from birth. McKenzie-Jones shows how this intimate experience, and the perspective gained from participating in powwows, summer workshops, and college Indian organizations, shaped Warrior's intertribal approach to Indian affairs. This long-overdue biography explores how Clyde Warrior's commitment to culture, community, and tradition formed the basis for his vision of Red Power

This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia's urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization. The book challenges the current formal approaches and practices to modern planning in Indonesia where many kampungs are classed as illegal and excluded from city plans. Beyond informality unpacks via 3 case studies the self-generated planning and development arrangements and mechanisms which occur parallel to processes of formal exclusion, adaptation, negotiation and modification. Kampungs are posited as inseparable urban entities contributing to the complex assemblage of the city and the dynamics of contemporary urban planning and design. In the context of planning and design practice, this book provides a better understanding on how one needs to consider human-scale urbanism to achieve more effective and efficient planning plans and policies in the self-organized city. Even though self-organization by residents comes with its challenges as outlined in the book, formal planning in both Indonesia and other developing countries has much to learn from understanding self-organized settlements (kampung) and informal settlements "as they are".

Abstrak: Sementara pemerintah berusaha untuk memenuhi kebutuhan dasar penduduknya, masyarakat dengan akses yang minim terhadap mekanisme formal pelayanan dan infrastruktur telah mengembangkan cara mereka sendiri untuk memanfaatkan sumber daya, modal sosial dan jaringan kekerabatan mereka. Literatur perencanaan yang ada sering memberi label terhadap proses, hasil dan konsekuensinya seperti alokasi lahan dan pembangunan perumahan sebagai seuatu yang ilegal karena tidak diproduksi dalam suatu sistem perencanaan dan pembangunan yang formal. Artikel ini akan mengeksplorasi munculnya tipe tata kelola perkotaan informal dalam rangka penyediaan infrastruktur perkotaan dan kebutuhan lainnya di Melanesia dengan membandingkan situasi di kota-kota menengah seperti Port Moresby dan Jayapura. Tulisan ini adalah analisis awal tentang penyediaan infrastruktur perkotaan dan kebutuhan dasar lainnya yang terorganisasi sendiri yang telah berkembang di kedua kota tersebut, ditambah dengan implikasi pergerakan ke arah pengelolaan yang lebih efektif dalam bidang tata kelola dan manajemen perkotaan.Kata Kunci: Tata kelola, permukiman informal, Jayapura, Port MoresbyAbstract: As the government tries to meet basic public needs, people with least access to formal mechanisms for services and infrastructure have developed their own means to meet their needs by utilising their resources, social capital and kin network. Mainstream planning literature has often labeled such process, outcomes and consequences such as land allocation and housing development as illegal since they are not produced in the formal planning and development system. This paper will explore the emergence of informal types of urban governance in the provision of urban infrastructure and other needs in Melanesia by comparing the situation in the mid-sized cities of Port Moresby and Jayapura. The paper is a preliminary analysis of the nature of self-organised provision of urban infrastructure and other basic needs which has been flourishing in both cities, plus the ...

Architecture has become an important discourse for new expressions of post-national identity in general and in particular for the emergence of a `spatial' European identity. No longer tied to the state to the same degree as in the period of nation-building, architecture has become a significant cultural expression of post-national identities within and beyond the nation-state. The article looks at four such discourses, first, taking the Millennium Dome in London and the Reichstag in Berlin, we show that architecture can express in a reflexive way contested and ambiguous national identities; second, the case of architecture in post-communist European societies illustrates the dual identity of architecture as a project of building and of re-building; third, the EU's search for a cultural form is discussed with respect to the architectural designs on the Euro banknotes; and finally the question of architecture as a relation to a lived space is considered with regard to cityscapes as yet another expression of a tendentially spatialized European identity.